The Salon @ Sonotheque Presents
Rebirth of the Cool

9pm-2am

$5 Cover
For free cover RSVP: info@sonotheque.net

Every 4th Wednesday of the month

Groove Merchant/DJ Joe Bryl
Salonnierre: Ariana Kim

Sonotheque is truly a Mecca for music aficionados, and its Curator, Joe Bryl, is an iconographic source of sound in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune has heralded Mr. Bryl as Chicago’s “Most Interesting DJ” for his expertise in the realm of music. In an effort to create an experimental symposium to showcase Mr. Bryl’s extensive repertoire, Sonotheque and Salonnierre Ariana Kim have created The Salon @ Sonotheque: Rebirth of the Cool, a monthly forum in the tradition of the17th/18th century European salon.

Their vision is to create an opportunity for participants to interact, collaborate, and enhance their knowledge of music, film, art, politics, fashion, business, and philosophy, within the backdrop of Mr. Bryl’s sophisticated musical insights. The Salon @ Sonotheque will showcase Mr. Bryl’s compendium of music across borders and genres and will be the ultimate listening lounge experience for audiophiles, intellectuals, and aesthetes the world over. It will be an opportunity to hear music you probably would not, and could not hear on the radio, or anywhere else for that matter.

The Salon @ Sonotheque: Rebirth of the Cool was conceptualized as a modern day incarnation of Ooh-La-Lounge, the cutting edge forum that Mr. Bryl and his partner, Donnie Madia successfully developed as a version of a ‘salon’ for the 90’s. Many fixtures from the Ooh-La-Lounge era will be reincarnated for this inspired event, including Model/ Bartender Michael Ramion, and Gatekeeper and Host of Braziliance, Nick Lambrou. Another highlight of the evening is Christy Sweet, a former bartender turned Psychological Researcher/Author, whose insight will add perspective to her concoctions behind the bar.

We are excited to announce that beginning in July, Sonotheque will collaborate with The Violet Hour on a revolving menu of specialty cocktails for upcoming The Salon @ Sonotheque: Rebirth of the Cool events.

This month’s event will feature a selection of rare jazz shorts as a pictorial backdrop to the music. The selection will include:

John Coltrane: Alabama + Afro Blue + Naima
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet feat. Lalo Schiffrin: Blues After Dark + Lorraine
Jimmy Smith Trio: The Champ + Walk on the Wild Side + Mack the Knife
Sonny Rollins Quintet feat. Jim Hall: God Bless the Child
Miles Davis & Gil Evans Orchestra: The Duke + Blues for Pablo + New Rhumba
Duke Ellington: Newport Stomp + Moon Indigo + Sophisticated Lady + Take the A Train
Art Pepper: D. Section
Shelly Mann Quintet feat. Conte Candoli: The Isolate Pawn + Fantan
Wes Montgomery: Jingles
Ahmad Jamal Trio: Darn That Dream + Ahmad Blues
Thelonious Monk Trio: Blue Monk
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra: I Cover the Waterfront + Dinah, Tiger Rag + Chinatown My Chinatown + High Society
Bessie Smith: St. Louis Blues